Word: supporters
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...being pulled under, and, turning about sought to grasp. Cameron; but the swift current had separated them, and he looked in vain for Cameron to rise. Hooker, meanwhile, also unable to swim, succeeded in turning over the shell, by which he kept himself above water until even this frail support began to sink under him, and with a desperate effort, he seized a boat which a boy by the name of O'Brien had put to the assistance of the drowning men. Sherman, who was able to swim, also climbed into the boat, and was taken ashore...
Doubtless many of these results have been attained. But the great fault of the system at present is, that it resembles too closely an association for the support of four six-oar and four four-oar crews. And, however pleasant it may be to these crews to be provided with boats by the general multitude, and however beneficial it may be to the boating interests of the College, we fear that the membership of the various clubs will largely decrease next year unless better accommodation is given to the less proficient oarsmen...
...been urged that the crews should be provided with shells, in order to accustom themselves to rowing in a racing-boat; but before this want is satisfied, some attention should be given to the needs of those who have paid as much as any one for the support of the clubs, but are not favored by nature with biceps and thighs of power enough to win them a place on the crews...
...bloomer costume be introduced, the new science will be as applicable to women as to men; and this is to me a strong argument in favor of the proposed innovations in female attire. But, even supposing the fashions to remain as they are, I hold that I can support my pretensions to reading character in general fully as well as the average phrenologist; and, as neither his science nor mine satisfactorily solve the problems which may arise concerning women, I should venture to suggest that they might be profitably made the object of podological investigation...
...instead of friendly contests and pleasant visits between colleges, we are to have all the hard work of practice for no other purpose than to play against men who make base-ball a means of support, I am afraid that the old exciting times of base-ball are over...